BARCELONA - REAL MADRID

FAQ for Barcelona - Real Madrid

Is it true that Alfredo di Stefano almost played for Barcelona ?

Alfredo Di Stefano (born July 4, 1926, Argentina) was an Argentine powerful forward. Many see him as one of the greatest of all time. When he decided to move to Spain in the fifties there was a big row over which club he was going to play for.

Barcelona as well as Real Madrid thought to have signed the star player. In the end The Spanish FA decided that both teams should share the player on every-other-season basis. Barca refused this and Di Stefano became part of one of the most succesful club sides of all time.

For the people in Barcelona this was another example of the injustice they had to suffer from the central government in Madrid.